2016 Presidential Election

BY ERIC L. MCDANIEL Commentators have argued that Donald Trump’s election is an indication that President Obama failed to appeal to the White working class. These arguments downplay the role of race and contend that Obama’s inability to calm working class Whites’ economic fears contributed to [...]

BY ERIC GONZALEZ JUENKE AND PARU SHAH The Obama era will come to a close next year. His presidency has provided the backdrop to some of the most important innovations in racial and ethnic politics research. In the last decade, with the rise and pervasiveness of online campaign websites, political [...]

By Linda Alvarez, Ivy A. Melgar Cargile, Natasha Altema McNeely, Lisa Pringle, Patricia Posey, Andrea Silva, and Carrie Skulley On November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. Many, including members of the Republican party were shocked that a man openly [...]

BY JUSTINE G.M. ROSS Nearly forty years ago, an anti-establishment presidential candidate with a Tinseltown resume and the campaign phrase “Let’s Make America Great Again” rose to national prominence. Initially dismissed by his party, opponents, and the media as an uninformed, inexperienced, [...]

BY: DANIEL GALVIN President Obama has devoted most of his energies over the last eight years to building a policy legacy, and he has made many important gains. Unfortunately, it will now be relatively easy for Trump and the Republican Congress to undo most of it fairly quickly. They will now [...]

Jane Junn is Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California In the wake of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States, one piece of data from voter exit polls has been particularly surprising for Clinton supporters: 53% of white women voted for Trump [...]

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